linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v2] NULL pointer when make_indexed

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Message-ID: <20110515042108.GJ21165@thunk.org>
Date:	Sun, 15 May 2011 00:21:08 -0400
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	Allison Henderson <achender@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Ext4 Developers List <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] NULL pointer when make_indexed_dir returns -ENOSPC

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:59:20AM -0700, Allison Henderson wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I wasnt sure if people were expecting a v2 for this one, but I
> noticed the modified version of v1 was removed from the tree, so I
> am assuming we needed v2?  This one handles marking the buffer dirty
> before calling do split to avoid the null pointer.  It introduces a
> little overhead, but the only other option would be to introduce a
> new flag set to do_split.  But if there's any one that would prefer
> the flags to this solution, please let me know.  Thx! :)
> 
> Allison Henderson
> 
> Signed-off-by: Allison Henderson <achender@...ibm.com>

Applied, thanks.  In the future, I'd appreciate it if you resent the
patch with a formal commit description.  I recreated the commit
description from the older patch in this case.

	    	     	   	    	 - Ted
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